For those of you that have barky dogs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every once in a while my dog barks at a fox if she sees one while out on a walk. I don't "let" her bark, she just does it. If it is early in the morning, I do turn her around toward home to try to stop the barking, and it mostly works, but there isn't much more I can do.

If you don't like being around dogs, or neighbors in general, you are going to need to leave suburbia.

Dogs left outside all day barking their head off are another matter. i would take that up with the neighbor.

NP. I can't stand dogs. I am not leaving a suburb due to this. Get lost with that idea.

This isn't the fairytale of, "once in a while my dog barks at a fox" as you surely read in the OP.

It's directed at those who have barky dogs (yes, the house right behind mine) and keep them outside for an hour or more while they bark constantly.
There are not enough foxes to cause this. Or birds. Or cats.
They are barkers. Obviously the owners do not care. The neighbors subjected to this cannot stand them and their noise.
These are not our dogs and we did not sign up to listen to them at all hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received an anonymous, one-page handwritten note on our door from one of our neighbors letting us know our barking dog was bothering her (I assume it's a woman based on the penmanship). We live in a suburb in NoVA, on 1/4 acre lots so a barking dog can be heard over a several-house radius.

There are certain things our dog will bark at, usually a fox and occasionally one neighbor's dogs (they bark back). She sometimes barks for several mnutes, but we didn't think that much of it. Now, when she's out, especially in the early morning or later at night, we're more of her barking and are working on her recall, which had been lousy but it's getting better.

I appreciate the neighbor letting us know the barking was bothering her and I hope we've been doing a better job. Maybe she'll leave another note complimenting us, but I won't expect one.

Want a cookie too? Did you mommy not praise you enough? You want a compliment note from your neighbor for doing the job they had to point out was your job?

Sweetie, you should be thankful your neighbor did you the solid of writing a note explaining the problem to your stupid self instead of immediately reporting you for the noise violation you're responsible for. You're already welcome.

And if your dog has no recall, they shouldn't be off-leash. Yes, even on your own property. Walk the dog out to do business so it's under your full control until you have proper recall dialed in (which is puppy-level training).

Oh, my. Who pissed in your corn flakes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received an anonymous, one-page handwritten note on our door from one of our neighbors letting us know our barking dog was bothering her (I assume it's a woman based on the penmanship). We live in a suburb in NoVA, on 1/4 acre lots so a barking dog can be heard over a several-house radius.

There are certain things our dog will bark at, usually a fox and occasionally one neighbor's dogs (they bark back). She sometimes barks for several mnutes, but we didn't think that much of it. Now, when she's out, especially in the early morning or later at night, we're more of her barking and are working on her recall, which had been lousy but it's getting better.

I appreciate the neighbor letting us know the barking was bothering her and I hope we've been doing a better job. Maybe she'll leave another note complimenting us, but I won't expect one.

Want a cookie too? Did you mommy not praise you enough? You want a compliment note from your neighbor for doing the job they had to point out was your job?

Sweetie, you should be thankful your neighbor did you the solid of writing a note explaining the problem to your stupid self instead of immediately reporting you for the noise violation you're responsible for. You're already welcome.

And if your dog has no recall, they shouldn't be off-leash. Yes, even on your own property. Walk the dog out to do business so it's under your full control until you have proper recall dialed in (which is puppy-level training).

When you pay my mortgage and property taxes you can tell me what up do on my property

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received an anonymous, one-page handwritten note on our door from one of our neighbors letting us know our barking dog was bothering her (I assume it's a woman based on the penmanship). We live in a suburb in NoVA, on 1/4 acre lots so a barking dog can be heard over a several-house radius.

There are certain things our dog will bark at, usually a fox and occasionally one neighbor's dogs (they bark back). She sometimes barks for several mnutes, but we didn't think that much of it. Now, when she's out, especially in the early morning or later at night, we're more of her barking and are working on her recall, which had been lousy but it's getting better.

I appreciate the neighbor letting us know the barking was bothering her and I hope we've been doing a better job. Maybe she'll leave another note complimenting us, but I won't expect one.

Want a cookie too? Did you mommy not praise you enough? You want a compliment note from your neighbor for doing the job they had to point out was your job?

Sweetie, you should be thankful your neighbor did you the solid of writing a note explaining the problem to your stupid self instead of immediately reporting you for the noise violation you're responsible for. You're already welcome.

And if your dog has no recall, they shouldn't be off-leash. Yes, even on your own property. Walk the dog out to do business so it's under your full control until you have proper recall dialed in (which is puppy-level training).

Pp was rectifying the situation and you're just being an @$$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had major surgery Thanksgiving week and am home from the hospital but still pretty mobility impaired. My husband is taking care of the dogs, and yes, he thinks it’s perfectly ok to leave them barking outside at 10 pm while he gets his stuff ready for the next day.

I don’t agree with him, but when I tried to get up to let the dogs in a couple days ago, I slipped and almost fell on our stairs. So I am really sorry OP, but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.

Yeah, this is an outlier situation ...

Husband doing what's easiest for him without considering its impact on others seems pretty Standard Guy, actually

[Anonymous]

This is 100% trainable. There is no excuse for letting them bark.

PP whose dog barks while walking, this is the easiest scenario. Carry some training treats and redirect your dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received an anonymous, one-page handwritten note on our door from one of our neighbors letting us know our barking dog was bothering her (I assume it's a woman based on the penmanship). We live in a suburb in NoVA, on 1/4 acre lots so a barking dog can be heard over a several-house radius.

There are certain things our dog will bark at, usually a fox and occasionally one neighbor's dogs (they bark back). She sometimes barks for several mnutes, but we didn't think that much of it. Now, when she's out, especially in the early morning or later at night, we're more of her barking and are working on her recall, which had been lousy but it's getting better.

I appreciate the neighbor letting us know the barking was bothering her and I hope we've been doing a better job. Maybe she'll leave another note complimenting us, but I won't expect one.

Want a cookie too? Did you mommy not praise you enough? You want a compliment note from your neighbor for doing the job they had to point out was your job?

Sweetie, you should be thankful your neighbor did you the solid of writing a note explaining the problem to your stupid self instead of immediately reporting you for the noise violation you're responsible for. You're already welcome.

And if your dog has no recall, they shouldn't be off-leash. Yes, even on your own property. Walk the dog out to do business so it's under your full control until you have proper recall dialed in (which is puppy-level training).

Pp was rectifying the situation and you're just being an @$$

If PP wasn't the sort of person who needs to be told to control her pet(s), I might care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

Why don't you get off my yard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

Why don't you get off my yard?

I'm not on your yard.
And I guarantee that her (your?) dog barks at people who are not in their yard, but merely walking down the sidewalk or on the neighbor's strip of yard.

[Anonymous]

Just get a zapper and zap it when it barks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

That's abusive. If a dog is on someone's private property, its fine. You have no right to go on their property so its a non-issue. Dogs are trying to say hi and protect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog likes to play in the yard. My neighbor installed a little free library on his little strip between our driveways. People are constantly bringing their dogs to the LFL and in my yard. My dog thinks: hey! these intruders are walking, peeing and pooping in my yard! BARK BARK BARK

I try to stop it but my dog's not wrong either.

Why don't you get an anti-bark collar? Problem solved.

Why don't you get off my yard?

I'm not on your yard.
And I guarantee that her (your?) dog barks at people who are not in their yard, but merely walking down the sidewalk or on the neighbor's strip of yard.

Don't walk on someone's strip of yard. That is private property.

[Anonymous]

I am sensitive to this with respect to my dogs. Mine are legitimately pretty barky and triggered by distant dogs barking and other noises or dogs walking down the street. As a result, I never leave them outside for more than a few minutes at a time. I am personally not bothered by neighbors' dogs barking - I just tune it out - but since my dogs don't, I wish they were more considerate, too...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is 100% trainable. There is no excuse for letting them bark.

PP whose dog barks while walking, this is the easiest scenario. Carry some training treats and redirect your dog.

Lol, new poster but one whose dogs are also set off by foxes, and there is no treat in the universe that would get their attention away from a fox.

(to be clear, they are not left outside to bark, but on walks or when spotted from inside the house, foxes are a Defcon One threat)